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All aboard: 8 entertaining train and railroad attractions in San Diego County and Tijuana
Homebuyers knew airport was there.
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Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
When San Francisco’s frustrated businessmen asked the state’s railroad commission to give them a break on rates, to help San Francisco restore its fortunes, the commission — under who knows what influences — instead lowered rates for L.A., and used its business growth as a reason.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
The mythology surrounding James himself likewise had many authors, all converging toward portraying him as a dashing foe of the bankers and railroad barons who had come to represent the inequities of America’s Gilded Age.
—Joshua Hunt, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
By the 1950s, the railroad’s checkerboard sections of the Palm Springs area became wealthy and white while the Agua Caliente’s checkerboard sections on the reservation became the home of comparatively poorer Tribal communities.
—Michael Albertus, TIME, 15 Jan. 2025
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Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
When San Francisco’s frustrated businessmen asked the state’s railroad commission to give them a break on rates, to help San Francisco restore its fortunes, the commission — under who knows what influences — instead lowered rates for L.A., and used its business growth as a reason.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
The mythology surrounding James himself likewise had many authors, all converging toward portraying him as a dashing foe of the bankers and railroad barons who had come to represent the inequities of America’s Gilded Age.
—Joshua Hunt, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
By the 1950s, the railroad’s checkerboard sections of the Palm Springs area became wealthy and white while the Agua Caliente’s checkerboard sections on the reservation became the home of comparatively poorer Tribal communities.
—Michael Albertus, TIME, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Railroad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/railroad. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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